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Buildings as "open source platforms"

BD+C

made accessible renderings of Bellevue 600, a 43-story office tower that Amazon is building on a site that the ecommerce giant purchased in April 2019. In early February 2020, the city of Bellevue, Wash., Construction of this 600-foot-tall, 885,000-sf tower is scheduled to begin next year, and should be accepting occupants by 2024.

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5 must reads for the AEC industry today: April 15, 2020

BD+C

Buildings as "open source platforms" (BD+C). NBBJ’s year-old Design Performance Group helps building teams make smarter choices earlier.".

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Kier chalks up £28m secondary school job in Bournemouth

Construction Enquirer

The £28m new campus projects will replace the existing buildings on site, have a more concise and efficient layout and improved facilities to cover sport, music, drama and SEND provision. The building has been designed using Kier’s kSchool design platform to reflect the school’s desire to serve as the heart of the community.

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The Simple Guide to LEAN Construction Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Open collaboration between real property project owners and service providers (architects, engineers, builders…) throughout the life-cycle of assets, programs, and projects is a fundamental outcome of using the OpenJOC(TM) Collaborative Construction Delivery Platform. . . Arizona continues to struggle?

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5 Ways to Elevate Your Project Management Process in 2024 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Not to mention, the growing emphasis on remote and hybrid work means stakeholders need a central and accessible platform to collaborate. That’s why the first step to successful project management is ensuring all communications occur in a centralized platform. Unrestricted and open-ended communication.

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Life of an Architect Podcast Ep. 122: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence

BD+C

Andrew and I have both been exploring platforms like ChatGPT as well as image generators like MidJourney, DALL-E, and others. These are the text-to-image types of Artificial Intelligence platforms. It is scraping the internet sources for the data/images that begin to inform a noise cloud of random pixels of information.

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A Naturally Made Hotel in Baja California Sur

Natural Building

The recently opened El Perdido Hotel in El Pescadero, Mexico, utilizes traditional construction materials of the region. Time-honored materials like rammed earth, thatched roofs, and Palo de Arco wood were used throughout, using only locally sourced materials and working with local artisans. To give and not to take,” she concludes.